It's not up to me. Feeding tubes are removed every single day of the week all year long from patients who have had massive strokes, are PVS, are brain dead, etc. For a multitude of reasons, feedings tubes are removed and it's been a decision left between doctors and the family.
The ONLY reason this has become such a large issue is because the parents and husband disagreed in this matter.
bottom line........do you personally agree that removing her feeding tube was the right thing to do ? yes or no please
It's done in cases of terminal illness everyday not in cases that kill off the disabled.
There is a difference.
My Aunt died like that. She needed a pace maker was all but because she was on morphine and didn't "know" her kids when they came in, the kids determined she wouldn't have wanted to live like that and ordered her feeding tube removed.
My cousin had liver cancer, went to the hospital and was talking about getting her glasses fixed when she got out! Fully coherent, until the Dr told the family that she wouldn't get any better, so they told him to stop feeding her too.
"The ONLY reason this has become such a large issue is because the parents and husband disagreed in this matter."
Ya know, I personally think that the "husband's" appeal to "right to privacy" is the ONLY factor we need to consider in understanding how and why this case has become so difficult. Were we all on the same page with all the facts laid out squarely before us, it still boils down to the controversy of euthenasia... it appears you have asserted approval...